The 7th update of Sparky 7 – 7.7 is out.
It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm”.
Changes:
– all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos as of April 8, 2025
– Linux kernel PC: 6.1.129-LTS (6.14.1, 6.12.22-LTS, 6.6.86-LTS in sparky repos)
– Linux kernel ARM: 6.12.20-LTS
– LibreOffice 7.4.7 (25.2.2 in Debian backports repos)
– KDE Plasma 5.27.5
– LXQt 1.2.0
– MATE 1.26
– Xfce 4.18
– Openbox 3.6.1
– Firefox 128.9.0esr (137.0.1 in sparky repos)
– Thunderbird 128.9.0esr
– fixed an issue of Sparky CLI Installer which was breaking installation if choosing other desktop to install
Sparky 7.7 “Orion Belt” is available in the following versions:
– amd64 BIOS/UEFI+Secure Boot: Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– i686 non-pae BIOS/UEFI (Legacy): MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– ARMHF & ARM64: Openbox & CLI
PC live user:password = live:live
ARM user:password = pi:sparky
If you have Sparky 7 installed – simply keep it up to date. No need to reinstall it.
New iso images of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” can be downloaded from the download/stable page
Informacja o wydaniu w języku polskim: https://linuxiarze.pl/sparky-7-7/
Hi from Vladivostok Russia !
i like Sparky Linux and use only XFCE with QinX theme by default, this only one from.
But any way i in Slackware Linux amd64 for every day work with seam theme.